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North York, ON · Private foundation

The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation

Disburse funds to registered charities.

C$190k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$35k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUMC$50,000
GOLF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$23,000
SWIM DRINK FISH CANADAC$21,000
CORP OF MASSEY HALL OF ROY THOMPSON HALLC$20,000
ARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADAC$15,500
ALPINE CANADAC$15,000
NATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTOC$10,000
AMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITYC$6,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CANADAC$5,000
COM KIDS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CAF CANADAC$5,000
LAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUMC$3,000
13TH ROUND FIGHT FOR LIFEC$2,500
SUNNYBROOK FOUNDATIONC$2,500
CAMP SCUGOGC$2,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 32 repeat orgsC$159k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
22

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+40%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$58k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$252k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    THE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$111k · revenue +135%
  • SD
    SWIM DRINK FISH CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$96k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BT
    BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue -25%
  • CO
    CAMP OOCHIGEAS
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +19%
  • DG
    DAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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2
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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3
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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4
National Gallery of Canada Foundation

Assisting the national gallery of canada in the areas of education curatorial research acquisitions and public programs.

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5
Toronto Arts Foundation

Provides finanical support to artists and arts organizations in toronto. offers awards ad commissions recognizing artistic excellence. administers donor-directed funds and special initiatives supporting public engagement artist recognition…

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6
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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7
Mississauga Foundation

First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and…

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8
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation

Provides scholarship funds for medical research at the university of toronto.

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9
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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10
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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11
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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12
Museum of Toronto History

Museum is an evolving collection of diverse stories histories and programs. our work is about growing a comprehensive archive of toronto that explores how we live in toronto past present and future. we are about meaningful exchange that…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hot Docs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
43/56
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAVERGAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$252,017 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHOT DOCS — C$212,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$111,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH CANADA — C$95,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF ALGONQUIN PARK — C$62,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CANOE MUSEUM — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL SKI ACADEMY — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCORP OF MASSEY HALL AND ROY THOMSON HALL — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOM KIDS FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLAKE OF BAYS MARINE MUSEUM — C$30,182 over 4y, 14% of budgetNATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — C$22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH — C$20,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$18,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAF CANADA — C$17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetE3 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YELLOW BUS FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE TO ACHIEVE ORGANIZATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAMP OOCHIGEAS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCDERMOTT HOUSE CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDAVID GOODMAN YOUTH COMMUNITY TRUST — C$9,520 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE EAST YORK FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetHUNTINGTON SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER CANADA COLLEGE — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SCUGOG — C$6,600 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOLLINGWOOD G&M HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMICI CHILDREN'S CAMP CHARITY — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMH FOUNDATION — C$5,775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA GIVES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART GALLERY OF ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICOUNTS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANCTUARY MINISTRIES OF TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget13TH ROUND FIGHT FOR LIFE — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTORONTO GENERAL & WESTERN HOSPITAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESPRIT ORCHESTRA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH YORK GENERAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE OF BAYS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANS CANADA TRAIL — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Andy and Beth Bur…Toronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Canada GivesJewish Foundation of …R. Howard Webster Fou…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Slaight Family Fo…Private Giving Founda…Wcpd FoundationWeston Family Foundat…
The Andy and Beth Burgess Family FoundationON19.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy and Beth Burgess Family Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Canada Gives · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto · R. Howard Webster Foundation / Fondation R. Howard Webster · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Slaight Family Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 824681670:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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